Books

Lady Cockroach is a short play for children published in 1929 in the city of Shiraz, Iran.
According to the cover, the author Mirza Jabbar Askarzadeh (often known as Jabbar Baghtcheban) was the head-teacher of a kindergarten in Shiraz. He later established the first Iranian kindergarten for the deaf, and was the inventor of Persian cued speech.[Continue Reading...]

Comic books were not popular in Iran until the 1960s when a children’s magazine, Keyhan Bacheha, began publishing them. Between 1969 to 1977 Universal Publishers, published thirteen books from Tintin series. [Continue Reading...]

“A pocket guide to Iran” was a booklet published by U.S. War Department in 1943. It aimed to inform the U.S. military, who were present in Iran at the time, about the basics of the Iranian culture, history, and geography. [Continue Reading...]

Behzad Golpayegani (1938-1985) was a graphic designer who worked in 1970s for various journals, such as Peyk and Talaash. He also designed many book covers for the Franklin company, a publisher of pocket-sized paperbacks. The use of typography and kraft board distinguished him from other Iranian designers.[Continue Reading...]

The Blind Owl (1937) is Sadegh Hedayat's most enduring work of prose and a major literary work of 20th century Iran. Written in Persian, it tells the story of a young man's despair after losing a mysterious lover. As the narrator gradually drifts into madness, the reader becomes caught in the sandstorm of Hedayat's bleak vision of the human condition.[Continue Reading...]

Sani-al-Mulk’s illustrations for “One thousand and One nights” - (c. 1853).
Mirza Abol-Hassan Khan Ghaffari Kashani, also known as 'Abol-Hassan the Second' and 'Sani-al-Mulk', is considered the first teacher of European style of painting in Iran. [Continue Reading...]

"Method of Teaching the Deaf" by Mirza Jabbar Asgarzadeh, known as Jabbar Baghcheban, was the first book for speech training for Iranian deaf students.
Baghcheban was born to Iranian parents in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1884. After World War I, he moved to Iran's East Azerbaijan province and started work as a teacher.[Continue Reading...]

"Regained Glory" (published in 1974, illustrated by Dino Attanasio) is a comic book that narrates the official pro-Shah history of post-WWII Iran up to early 1970s. The book is targeted towards the young adults. [Continue Reading...]